# Sam Parker

> Sam Parker is a startup investor at Shell Foundation. See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Shell Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shell-foundation)
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sam-parker-aa21817

Sam Parker is a startup investor at Shell Foundation. After graduating from Oxford University in 1983, Sam worked for six years in the agrochemical industry, with a focus on Latin America. After 18 months working as a volunteer with street children in Sao Paulo, Sam returned to business with 11 years at UK commodity trading company, ED&F Man Holdings, becoming Managing Director of the company’sAsian business in 2001. In 2002, Sam returned to the development sector becoming Organisational Development Manager at the International Save the Children Alliance.In 2006, Sam joined Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) as its first CEO. WSUP is a not-for-profit company, a private sector-NGO hybrid, which empowers local providers of water and sanitation services to reach low income urban consumers on a commercially viable basis. By 2014, the WSUP programme had provided over two million low income consumers with improved water and sanitation services and five million with improved the hygiene. In the process, WSUP has contributed valuable learning for the WASH sector on how to leverage private sector knowhow to provide sustainable benefits to the BOP.

## About Shell Foundation

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Shell Foundation is an independent charity established by the Shell Group in 2000 to create and scale new solutions to global development challenges. We apply business thinking to major social and environmental issues linked to the energy sector – and seek to leverage the skills and networks of Shell where possible to deliver greater developmentimpact.Over the years, learning from both success and failure, we have established a new enterprise-based model to deliver significant and lasting social and environmental outcomes. We now deploy a blend of financial and non-financial resources to accelerate social innovation and harness private markets to deliver public benefit at scale.

4 contacts available at Shell Foundation.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fraser Johnson | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fraser-johnson |
| Judith Pollock | Deputy Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/judith-pollock |
| Rachel Singh | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rachel-singh |
| Sam Parker | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-parker-3 |

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